7.8 rem.
In a limited number of shipboard cases, even this level was
exceeded.
Substantial overdoses from BRAVO, the highest for any test series,
were accrued by the 28 Air Force and Army personnel on Rongerik Atoll (13:
3-4) and the 92 crew members of USS Patapsco, a Navy gasoline tanker that was
overtaken by the nuclear cloud on the day following the shot while enroute
from Enewetak Atoll to Pearl Harbor (14).
Film badge readings suggest that
three members of the U.S. Navy Bikini Boat Pool also may have received
substantial overdoses.
Thorough investigation at the time failed, however, to
indicate reasons for these readings (13: 243-244).
As a result of BRAVO, 21
individuals on the USS Philip and 16 on the USS Bairoko sustained lesions that
were classified as beta burns, all of which healed without complications
(13: 3-4).
Summary of External Doses for Operation CASTLE as of 1 May 1986
Gamma Dose (rem)
0-0.5
0.5-1
1-3
3-5
5-10
Army
0
Navy
QO
1,341
47
6
3
3,940
1,462
2,210
695
211
115
Air Force
984
193
970
62
30
31
Marine Corps
160
8
101
29
5
0
30
6
13
0
0
0
Civilian DOD
Participants
10+
4.11 OPERATION TEAPOT.
Conducted from 18 February to 15 May 1955, Operation TEAPOT was the fifth
series of CONUS tests.
Two of the 14 nuclear detonations in the series, APPLE
1 and WASP PRIME, occurred on the same day although in different parts of the
NTS.
ESS, the only TEAPOT subsurface detonation (-67 feet), forced tons of
earth upward, thereby creating a crater 88 meters wide and 96 feet deep.
Figure 14 shows Exercise Desert Rock VI troops observing the ESS detonation
(G).
They were positioned approximately 8 kilometers from the shot site.
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